Motivational Quotes

Anger

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

2.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

3.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

4.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

5.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

6.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

7.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

8.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

9.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

10.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

11.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

12.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

13.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

14.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

16.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

17.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

18.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

19.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

21.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

23.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

24.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

25.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

26.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

27.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

28.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

29.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

30.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

31.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

32.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

33.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

35.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

36.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

37.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

38.

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Dickinson, Emily

39.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

41.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

44.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

45.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

47.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

48.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

49.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

50.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen